A native of Toronto Township[?], this son of Mr. and Mrs. Edward Coyne, he received his education in Brampton at Brampton Public School[?]. He was educated as a lawyer, and called to the Bar of Upper Canada[?] in 1864.
Entering Provincial politics in 1867, as a Conservative, he beat out Liberal candidate Robert Smith by just 46 votes (1118 to 1072). The number 1118 had a strange, but merely conicidental attraction to him, as proved by the next election in 1871. Posed against Chinguacousy's[?] T. O. Bowles[?], he won again with 1118 votes, against 1059 Liberal nods. He passed on from a short illness in 1873, after serving only two years of his second term.
He married Mary Catherine Scott[?], the youngest daughter of Brampton resident John Scott, in October 1867.
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